Conservative voters have to decide why they support this and if they're as horrible inside. Video link of ED Bruce McAllister, directly to the student, wishing that high school student's parents had beaten him. ⬇️ streamable.com/vzmcwe #AbLeg #abpoli #UCPcorruption

If any who use LinkedIn can screencap McAllister's page where it says all of this. I'm only assuming it finishes out with "Albertans". 🤞 #AbLeg #abpoli

Kneecap was never actually banned from Canada and the Liberal MP who announced it has GONE ROGUE?????? What the fuck!!!! This is unhinged!!!!

TIL on #DuckDuckGo mobile that you can swipe through open tabs! #FridayWin

Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/26/c...

🧵 My story, "What's Wrong With Rehab?" won Gold for Long-Form at Alberta Magazine Awards last night! Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social & all who shared expertise: Brandon Shaw, Esther Tailfeathers, @ehyshka.bsky.social, David Hodgins & recovery workers. 1/ albertaviews.ca/whats-wrong-...

Italian workers forced their leader, a fascist political descendant of Mussolini, to deploy her navy for an explicitly anti-fascist operation. Time to start picturing societal infrastructure as one giant anti-fascist sledgehammer.

Starbucks seems to have escaped the "Elbows Up" crowd's attention. That's terribly sad Canada. #BuyCanadian

The lack of accountability is the point. It’s easier to pretend you aren’t failing students, teachers, and parents if you stopped collecting evidence showing you’re doing exactly that.

Maria Dunn and musical friends in concert: Nov 6, 2025 at 7:30 pm Festival Place Theatre 100 Festival Way Sherwood Park, AB Box office 780-449-3378 Tix www.showpass.com/maria-dunn-2/ Celebrating my new/upcoming album "Hardscrabble Hope" #folkmusic #rootsmusic

The link previously alleged between Marshall Smith and Jitendra Prasad, star of this story, isn’t mentioned here but worth reiterating: (From @jonnywakefield.bsky.social)

New study shows police culture reinforces systemic racism in Canadian policing. Black, Indigenous & other racialized communities in Canada have spent a century (or more) explaining systemic racism in policing, racist policing practices & disproportionate use of force. Sigh. doi.org/10.1177/2153...

Everybody would excel at pattern recognition of the corruption all around them, but their cognitive dissonance prevents that from happening.

Played my song "When The Grandmothers Meet" at 2025 #DaughtersDay this past weekend, celebrating women in our community. The event also educates on inequities/barriers for women/girls. Congrats, all Daughters of the Year! mariadunn.bandcamp.com/track/when-t...

Chills. Thousands of Alberta high school students walked out of class to the legislature. They’re fighting back against UCP attacks on education. They’re standing up for teachers. They’re our future and I couldn’t be prouder. ✊🩷

Is it possible for the child of a prime minister to have thoughts of their own and be a good journalist? Maybe! One potential problem is when they also work for several lobbyists / businesses at the same time as they are hosting news programs and repeatedly have their business partners on as guests

Dua Lipa firing her manager is iconic, but let’s also hear it for all the journalists who have fired their pro-genocide employers in the last two years. Moral clarity over genocide hush money.

"Tylenol is dangerous for women and children," say men who have spent the last eight years making life more dangerous for women and children

Our student know what is right and just. ✊

Ah yes, the notwithstanding clause was definitely included in the constitution to avoid having to wait a little while for a court to rule on whether a law is constitutional

Excited to perform this upcoming season on Jan 10, 2026, at Beneath the Arch, Diamond Valley, AB. In good company with their season of fab Canadian musicians! Tickets here: www.beneaththearch.ca/upcomingconc...

Kneecap, the Irish hip-hop group who was banned from touring Canada earlier today, has this to say to Canadian MP Vince Gasparro.

Bluesky is pretty silent when you mute the non users of #AltText. And I still remain informed of the world 👍

In a week when US govt is suppressing free speech, not the greatest time for Gasparo and Libs to be banning Gaelic-Irish rap groups. Fight the real enemy.

There is zero reason to discuss anything the UCP does that might benefit Albertans, when they do so little of it. Stick to their corruption. #AbLeg #abpoli #FiretheUCP

Danielle Smith proposes a government that's small enough to fit in your pants

Well Ambassador Hoekstra, Pete, you don't have to stay. You could go home, perhaps? It's not healthy to hang out in a job where you experience disappointment, frustration, and low morale daily because of the political environment. Just an IDEA.

Watching Alberta at this moment is critical for the whole country. That edgeward slide into authoritarianism, which feels like a threat looming in your peripheral vision, is now always in plain sight in AB. Its government *welcomes* what is happening in the US.

The UCP government is so desperate to get into a big nasty fight with the Alberta Teachers Association that it will eagerly spend money on an ad campaign attacking teachers before it spends money improving classroom conditions for kids. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reposting with alt text. Also cancel Hulu Disney and ESPN. Losing millions of subscribers will speak louder than anything else.

And coaches are refusing to coach under these conditions.

How does Tanya Fir, Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women (that's all women and girls, not some) reconcile her position on this legislation from her colleagues? I wonder if the number of Olympic athletes from Alberta will dwindle now that girls are refusing to sign "the sheet" in protest?

Nailed it. #Kimmel

So you thought yesterday's report was bad... Welllllll... Leave it to AHS.. errr EHS to prove you wrong! 1900 measles cases, more closures.. OBGYN Diversion coming up and SUPER high ED wait times.. open.substack.com/pub/frazzleh... @frazzleheadlc.bsky.social #ableg #abhealth #UCPCorruption

One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups

ABC’s CEO Is Very Sorry Jimmy Kimmel Made Daddy Trump Mad youtu.be/AYcTo8Yd1iI

Lon Brewster, who was Sergeant at the time of Heffernan's killing by his officers, was promoted to Staff Sergeant within months of that killing. He is now an Inspector, just three ranks shy of Chief.

The highest-ranking officer in the room where Heffernan was killed by police, Staff Sergeant Lon Brewster, was let off without a disciplinary hearing because "too much time had passed" and he "wasn't involved in the alleged excessive force." Hierarchy is only a system of reward, not responsibility.

Citizenship on DL = distraction from #CorruptCare scandals. Book banning = distraction from #CorruptCare scandals. Pushing sovereignty = distraction from #CorruptCare scandals. Transpeople attacks = distraction from #CorruptCare scandals. #UCPcorruption knows it can distract Albertans. #AbLeg

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I live in an apartment downtown & couldn't tell you the last time I mowed a lawn, shovelled a driveway, paid for parking or got stuck in traffic. I walk a block to the grocery store & never need a shopping cart. It's the best I've ever lived #DowntownLiving #Urbanism #Density #yyc

Yes indeed! Thanks for the plug! RS

CTV Calgary reports that a pedestrian had a crash with a vehicle. Not sure how a pedestrian crashes into a vehicle, but there is no mention of a driver. In case you wondered how media protects drivers. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... #yyc #yyccc

Any surprises as to which councilors don't want to put in the hours but take the full pay? It's the Conservatives who are all part of the Conservative party running in Calgary Municipal Election next month. #yyc #abpoli #ableg

I'll take scientists & academics over columnists any day.

Maria Dunn and musical friends in concert: Nov 6, 2025 at 730pm Festival Place Theatre 100 Festival Way Sherwood Park, AB Box office 780-449-3378 Tix www.showpass.com/maria-dunn-2/ Celebrating my new/upcoming album "Hardscrabble Hope" #folkmusic #rootsmusic #yegmusic

The UN Commission of Inquiry’s damning report provides further confirmation of what Amnesty and others have been concluding for months: that the Israeli authorities and Israeli forces have committed and are continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Remembering many of Robert Redford's movies today. Will share this documentary with him on the history and results of Watergate. All the President's Men Revisited (2013) youtu.be/JzRWcBbhBgU?...

Page 8-9. Every member of parliament has seen this report. Everyone who stood for the ovation yesterday has read its key findings.

All this to say, the Citizenship Marker project will likely be scuttled on the shores of logic, logistics, or law. It shows, once again, how a premier-knows-best populist approach to policymaking ignores expert and stakeholder input at its peril. Unless this is all just performative, anyhow.